Fantastic News - ‘FLOWERS. Art from the Renaissance to Artificial Intelligence’ @chiostrodelbramante_roma has been extended until Feb 2026 ! So if you’re in Rome, you still have a chance to see this superb and thought provoking exhibition.
FLOWERS: featuring Ai Weiwei, Kehinde Whiley, Austin Young and David Allen Burns, Ann Carrington, Breugal, Zadok Ben David, to name a few.
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The main conservatory glass house at New York Botanical Gardens is such an impressive piece of architecture, it was both an exciting and daunting prospect designing a Van Gogh inspired site specific artwork for this expansive space.
Our process began by recreating Van Gogh’s Irises in our own visual language. Usually our artwork is made up of flat colours emulating depth through tone and composition, but for these we created more sculptural forms using the directional broken line work that Van Gogh employed. We also used opposite primaries for the back and foreground to emphasise the abstract forms.
We then created a series of huge lit columns (the tallest was nearly 23 feet tall) that alluded to the New York skyline, and blew our drawing up to the scale of the huge palms, so that the irises would blend and fold with these magnificent plants.
The reflections in the water and imagery on the floor are all designed to immerse the viewer and invite further contemplation.
photos and video courtesy of @nybg and @dapingluo
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New Nature. Vast canvases of vibrant buzzing nature, draping and overwhelming industrial scale halls.
@graphic_rewilding urban spaces and projecting an alternative reality. Hacking happiness by punching through to our inate desire for nature, so often missing from our fast city existence.
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FLOWER CLOUD FLOATABLES
We want people to be totally enveloped in surreal, humungous, maximalist floatables. The cloud silhouette from of our Flower Cloud sculptural benches, lifted off the ground and hung overhead, borrowing the floating logic of previous inflatable artworks like Garden of My Imagination, rounded out and softened.
NOT AI. Built in 3D with our own fair hands.
In their own words — artist duo @graphic_rewilding on "Fleeting Opulence", a landscape of flowers designed to make you slow down, look up, and reflect. Now on view at Brookfield Place. 🌸
Absolutely FANTASTIC to see our animation projected onto The Design Museum of Barcelona as part of OFFF Barcelona @offfest@dissenyhub - long live MICROSCOPIC MAXIMALISM! 🌸🌸🌸
Huge thanks to @frameboy.studio
✨🌪️🍭Our public art division is thrilled to announce that we signed the brilliant Graphic Rewilding!
Their unique blend of spatial vision and material innovation has transformed so many spaces across the globe. Nature is here reimagined on a maximalist, pictorial scale, embracing what they call “microscopic maximalism.” Through this approach, the tiniest details are magnified to monumental proportions, revealing the hidden magic in everyday life and sparking a sense of childlike wonder in their viewers.
Drawing inspiration from sources as diverse as Japanese Ink painting, Dutch still-life, and contemporary visionaries like Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Yayoi Kusama as well glass artists like Brian Clarke and John Piper, their public art projects brims with hope, joy and maximalism.
Reading some properly fascinating research recently on how we look at art these days. A study in Bologna using AI cameras tracked museum visitors and found the average person now spends just 4 to 5 seconds in front of a painting. Even the Mona Lisa only holds people for about 15 seconds at the Louvre.
We’re not really looking anymore - we’re scanning, glancing, ticking things off, moving on.
What do you think?
Olivia Meehan’s lovely book Slow Looking makes the case that this simple act of really paying attention is becoming a lost art. I think she’s onto something. And with our public art, we want to give people a few minutes of pause in their hectic day - hopefully mitigating some of the negative effects of our ever-increasing pace of life.
We LOVE what we do!!! A few more images from our latest artwork, Fleeting Opulance, in New York.
If you’re in the area, a fantastic time to see the interior glass art is around sunset, for rich golden colours, deep reflections and an ethereal atmosphere.
Pictures and Videos by @dapingluo , @cee.dy2 and Sean Drakes
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We are so super proud and happy to have had the opportunity to create ‘Fleeting Opulence’ , our latest and largest window artworks inside and out, celebrating the riot of wildflowers and pollinators of spring at Brookfield Place, New York, for their 8th annual arts commission.
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There’s something poetic about the rushing silhouettes of pedestrians striding past our glowing glass artwork.
This is a detail of ‘Fleeting Opulance’, Graphic Rewilding’s huge celebration of spring at Brookfield Place, New York, until October.
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‘Fleeting Opulence’ our latest and largest window artwork, filling the vast glass Cathedral like communal square at Brookfield Place, New York, for their 8th annual arts commission.
In our ever increasing pace and pressure of life, this celebration of that fleeting moment in spring when life bursts open in a riot of colour, is an invitation to take a breath.
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Many thanks to @jakobdahlin@bonnie_bijoux_ and @_monicamacho_ for their fantastic photos
